HMS by the Numbers FY 2020
Leadership
HMS By the Numbers
- Total faculty: 11,998
- Tenured and tenure-track faculty on the HMS campus in 11 preclinical departments: 186
- Voting faculty on campus and at affiliates: 6,307
- Full-time faculty on campus and at affiliates: 9,954
- Nobel Prizes (cumulative) in Medicine or Physiology, Peace: 10 prizes, 16 recipients
- National Academy of Medicine members (current): 160
- National Academy of Sciences members (current): 83
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (current): 37
- Investigators: 32
- Faculty Scholars: 4
- Professor: 1
- Total MD students: 701
- Total PhD students: 894 (893 HMS, 1 HSDM)
- MD-PhD students: 194: basic sciences 168, social sciences 26 (total included in MD and PhD counts)
- Total DMD students: 144
- Total master's students: 360 (309 HMS, 51 HSDM)
- Total DMSc students: 38
- Trainees: (residents and postdoctoral fellows): 9,036
Students
Entering MD students, 2020
- MD (includes 14 MD–PhD students): 168
- Applicants: 6,708
- Admitted: 234 (3.53%)
- Men: 67 (40%)
- Women: 101 (60%)
- Underrepresented in medicine (African American, Native American, Hispanic, Mexican American): 36 (21%)
- Asian: 64 (38%)
Additional entering students, 2020
- PhD: 161 (161 HMS)
- DMD: 35
- Master's: 212 (196 HMS, 16 HSDM)
- DMSc: 9
- Additional joint-degree programs: MD-MAD, MD-MMSc, MD-MBA, MD-MPH, MD-MPP
- Medical school living alumni: 10,627 (MD and master's)
As of September 2020
MD Financial Aid (Fiscal Year 2020)
- Average scholarship: $54,129
- Students receiving financial aid (excluding MD–PhD students): 76%
- (2019-20) Students graduating with loans: 110
- (2019-20) Average loan debt at graduation: $99,376
- Range of debt (Class of 2020): $2,394–$282,144
Tuition and Fees (2019–2020)
- Tuition: $63,400
- Fees: $4,978
Tuition and Fees (2020–2021)
- Tuition: $64,984
- Fees: $5,234
As of June 2020
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Answering the Call
Answering the Call
Dean's Report FY 2020
Dean's Report FY 2020
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